130 minutes
12/25/2003
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
Sinéad Cusack
as Elfrida Phibbs
Jan Niklas
as Oscar Blundell
Geraldine Chaplin
as Gloria Blundell
Jason Durr
as Sam Howard
Sophie Schütt
as Carrie Marchmont
Ralf Bauer
as Andreas Mendel
Peter Ustinov
as Hughie McLellan
Jean Simmons
as Countess Lucinda Rhives
Emma Streets
as Francesca 'Fran' Blundell
Anna Maguire
as Lucy Marchmont
Marsha Fitzalan
as Didi Marchmont
John Bird
as Barry
Maureen Lipman
as Marcia
Gregory Finnegan
as Giles
Alastair Bruce
as Rory Kennedy
Angus Wright
as Peter Kennedy